Ghost Kitchens In Empty Malls

Ghost kitchens continue to pop up in empty malls February 3 2020 admin Trading Ideas Comments Off on Ghost kitchens continue to pop up in empty malls As brick and mortar malls continue to struggle ghost kitchens are popping up in unused mall spaces.

Ghost kitchens in empty malls. All that does is make the customer experience better. Restaurateurs hunting for cut-rate space in the pandemic are teaming up with eager partners in another beleaguered industry. Often ghost kitchens rent their spaces in undesirable but convenient locations which include abandoned restaurants empty stores and malls even.

Abandoned malls aka dead malls aka ghost malls both of which are contenders for the name of my new metal bandare some of the strangest phenomena of late-capitalist 21st-century America. Property builders are constructing kitchens in empty malls to help fill food-delivery orders a new strategy to service the flourishing business segment of driving restaurant meals to peoples. Latest front in food delivery.

The downward trend has spurred a phenomenon dubbed ghost kitchens in which new kitchens find a home empty mall spaces. Joining the dark grocery store trend in which disused retail space serves as fulfillment centers for grocery delivery ghost kitchens or whatever you want to call them are taking advantage of out-of-business malls and and other empty storefronts to prepare meals for delivery. Fortunately new mixed-use designs have repurposed and resurrected many of these centers.

But its not all doom and gloom. Property developers are building kitchens in empty mall space and parking lots to fill food-delivery orders a new approach in the fast-growing business of shuttling meals to customers. Retail malls have been in trouble for some time now due to the increase in online shopping.

We called out the rise of ghost kitchens as a trend to watch in 2019. Ghost kitchens are often in undesirable yet convenient locations including abandoned restaurants empty mall spaces and even shipping containers. Simply put they are offshoot locations of restaurants that exist.

Post-financial crisis scores of massive shopping complexes stand. Can ghost kitchens save malls. And according to one industry vet Sterling Douglass CEO of restaurant-tech company Chowly everyone should be.